Inappropriately quoted by more preachers than could dance on the head of a pin.
—This verse has proved profitable for God only knows how many shady fund-raising projects—
Malachi 3:10
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A few questions from a blog idiot
How do you keep the spammers from eating you alive? i\’ve seen blogs with nothing but spam postings.
How do you keep some left wing extremist from posting racist or defamatory rhetoric? and if you cant stop them, what are you legally liabel when they do?
can viruses be posted to blogs?
Responses to above comment:
On spammers: I take advantage of the moderation option for comments, and also use a spam-filtering service which identifies and filters out most of the spammers according to rules I specify.
On racist or defamatory rhetoric: I’ve been too small a fish, I think, to generate much rhetoric of the sort you mention, and as I do have moderation turned on, I can see comments before they are posted. I don’t know of many left wing racists (I know, this reveals my own bias), but whether left or right, people of extreme views can occasionally be defamatory. However, should such language appear, within reasonable limits I would try to respond to it rather than merely suppress it, and I presume such conversation would be covered under the principle of free speech. One does not get far teaching respect by being preemptively disrespectful.
On viruses: No doubt anything is possible, especially if javascript is enabled. I use Firefox and disable scripts by default.
very interesting. i’m adding in RSS Reader